Since the 2006–07 season, the European Union of Sports Press (also known as AIPS Europe) has sponsored the European Football Coach of the Season award, which is given annually to the top manager of a European football club during the autumn–spring season.
The Present Era
The FIFA World Cup is regarded as the world’s most illustrious association football competition. There have been eight national teams that have won all 22 World Cup competitions. Following Brazil’s five victories are Germany and Italy with four victories apiece, Argentina with three victories, France and Uruguay with two victories apiece, England and Spain with one victory apiece, and Brazil with five victories. The manager’s duties include choosing the team’s roster for the World Cup and creating the team’s strategy. The importance of winning a World Cup and the limited daily interaction with players outside of international breaks during the regular club season add pressure to the position.
Wins by Coaches
The only manager with four tournament victories is Carlo Ancelotti. Bob Paisley and Zinedine Zidane are two of the tournament’s three winners. Paisley guided Liverpool to three trophies in five seasons, Ancelotti won four titles and took Milan and Real Madrid to five finals, and Zidane led Real Madrid to three titles in a row. The championship has been won twice by seventeen other managers. Only five managers—Carlo Ancelotti with Milan in 2003, 2007, Real Madrid in 2014, and 2022—as well as Ernst Happel with Feyenoord in 1970 and Hamburger SV in 1983, and Ottmar Hitzfeld with Borussia Dortmund in 1997 and Bayern Munich in 2001—have won the championship with two different teams.
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Jupp Heynckes led Bayern Munich in 2013 and Real Madrid in 1998. José Mourinho led Porto in 2004 and Inter Milan in 2010. Seven men—Miguel Muoz, Giovanni Trapattoni, Johan Cruyff, Carlo Ancelotti, Frank Rijkaard, Pep Guardiola, and Zinedine Zidane—have won the competition both as a player and a manager.
The record for managing five different national teams while appearing in the most FIFA World Cup final tournaments is held by Carlos Alberto Parreira, who had six appearances. Schön, who guided West Germany to victory in the 1974 World Cup, managed the most games in the competition with 25, and from 1966 to the 1978 FIFA World Cup, he led West Germany to a record 16 victories. Suppici, who was 31 years old in 1930, is the youngest manager to win the World Cup
| Total Wins by Coaches | ||
| Name | Total wins | Team(s) Managed |
| Italy Giovanni Trapattoni | 2 (1984–85, 1992–93) | Italy Juventus |
| Italy Marcello Lippi | 2 (1995–96, 1997–98) | Italy Juventus |
| Germany Ottmar Hitzfeld | 2 (1996–97, 2000–01) | Germany Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich |
| Portugal José Mourinho | 2 (2002–03, 2003–04) | Portugal Porto |
| Spain Rafael Benítez | 2 (2003–04, 2004–05) | Spain Valencia and England Liverpool |
| Italy Carlo Ancelotti | 2 (2002–03, 2006–07) | Italy Milan |
| Scotland Sir Alex Ferguson | 2 (1998–99, 2007–08) | England Manchester United |
| Italy Carlo Ancelotti | 2021–22 | Spain Real Madrid |
| Germany Thomas Tuchel | 2020–21 | France Paris Saint-Germain Chelsea |
| Germany Hansi Flick | 2019–20 | Germany Bayern Munich |
When they won the World Cup, Zagallo and César Luis Menotti were both in their 30s. Menotti was 39 years old in 1978, and Zagallo was 38 in 1970. Vicente del Bosque, 59 years old as of 2010, is the oldest World Cup, coach.
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